ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 336965
| Date: | Friday 30 May 1947 |
| Time: | 17:41 |
| Type: |  Douglas C-54B-15-DO (DC-4) |
| Owner/operator: | Eastern Air Lines |
| Registration: | NC88814 |
| MSN: | 18380 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1944 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 3623 hours |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 53 / Occupants: 53 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | 3 km E of Bainbridge, MD -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Newark International Airport, NJ (EWR/KEWR) |
| Miami International Airport, FL (MIA/KMIA) | |
| Investigating agency: | CAB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Eastern Air Lines Flight 605 departed Newark Airport, New Jersey, USA at 17:04 for a domestic flight to Miami, Florida.
The DC-4 climbed to its assigned cruising altitude of 4000 feet and the crew made position reports at 17:10 and 17:27 hours.
About 17:41 witnesses saw the aircraft enter a steepening dive until it struck the ground at high speed in a partially inverted attitude. The aircraft impacted moderately to densely wooded area with trees 60-70 feet high.
The investigation of this accident was at the time the most intensive in the history of the Civil Aeronautics Board's Safety Bureau.
It was found that the empennage disintegrated during the dive but whether failure of the empennage and/or its controls was an effect or a cause of the dive was not discovered.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "The Board determines that the probable cause of this accident was a sudden loss of control, for reasons unknown, resulting in a dive to the ground."
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
CAB File No. 1 0049-47
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